Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 20, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Odyssey
Season 2, episode 2 W: Joanna Lee D: Jack Shea With Victor Izay (Dr. Vance), Sissy Spacek (Sarah Simmonds), Allyn Ann McLerie (Mrs. Simmonds), Frances E. Williams (Granny Ketcham). John-Boy seeks the privacy of an abandoned cabin to continue his writing and finds a pregnant woman hiding there.
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| [ABC 8:00] Tennis Battle Of The Sexes
Bobby Riggs vs. Billie Jean King in the winner-take-all $100,000 match at the Astrodome in Houston. Rosemary Casals, Jack Kramer and Howard Cosell report.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 1 With Buddy Hackett, Richard Pryor, Ruth Buzzi. The fourth season opens. In skits, Flip and Pryor talk about taking a $1-a-day job as a janitor; Hackett is a rock star sharing a hospital room with Flip, and Ruth is one of the nurses.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
W: David Newman, Robert Benton D: Arthur Penn With Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans. The story about a pair of America's most notorious criminals during the early 1930s. Young Bonnie meets Clyde when he tries to steal her mother's car. They begin a series of amateur holdups that lead to a brief career of bank-robbing.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Murder By One
Season 7, episode 2 W: Sy Salkowitz, David Vowell D: Alexander Singer With Clu Gulager (Frank), Mary Ure (Liz), Herb Edelman (David Wollens), Michael Baseleon (Davis). After officer Fran Belding learns the teenage son of her divorcee friend has been fatally shot, the chief goes into action.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Betrayed
Season 2, episode 2 W: Mark Weingart D: William Hale With Collin Wilcox (Kate Evans), Martin Sheen (Dean Knox), Reuben Collins (Tanner), Lenore Kasdorf (Lindsay Campbell). A woman who is growing older and worried that her young boyfriend may leave her is used to set up an elaborate bank robbery, and is so blinded by her love she doesn't care that her own life may be in danger.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Follies [Reg]
With Sammy Davis Jr., Michey Rooney, Johnny Brown, Michael Landon, Charles Nelson Reilly, Connie Stevens. Sammy and Johnny impersonate movie and TV stars; Landon sings "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", and Connie is discovered in a slapstick Hollywood soda fountain sketch. Mickey Rooney leads the guests through a Viking galley slave segment.
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